To:THE POLITICAL BUREAU OF THE C.C., R.C.P.(B.)[1]

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TothePolitbureau(or Orgbureau): this incident should
be seized at to make a thoroughgoing investigation, enlistingDzerzhinsky’sassistance, find the “sister” the Menshevik
writes about, andpurgeKarakhan’s office.

[1]Writtenon a letter from J. Berzin to Lenin of March 11, 1920,
reporting that the censorship of the People’s Commissariat
for Foreign Affairs had let through a letter of the Menshevik
Abramovich addressed abroad to R. Hilferding, one of the
opportunist leaders of German Social-Democracy. Berzin suggested that
the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs should be purged
of hostile elements.